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ct1615, Thank you a million for the clear explanation and confirmation of what I suspected but wasn't sure. you've been a great help.

Hi, I had a system using a Phenom II X4 (940 I believe but not quite sure) on an AM2 class motherboard Gigabyte MA790X-UDP4. The motherboard got fried. I did a little shopping around and found the ASRock 970 Extreme 3 which has support for AM3 processors and lists the Phenom II X4 as being...

To give you an example of what a driver is (in addition to what ageXXXXX above said, which is correct), your X-Fi sound card (as an example) requires some software to be installed with it, one of the software components installed is the driver for it. As agexxxxx above stated, the driver is the...

I'm also inclined to believe that the motherboard is in some way (maybe more than one) the cause of the problems. Trying a different NIC is a good idea, if it works it would point to a bad port on the MB. Given that there is/was a memory problem and now there seems to be a problem with the MB...

I agree with o1die above. If you can get $300 out of it (without O/S) you should be satisfied.

before you reinstall (if you haven't done so already), start task manager and make sure the CPU usage column is visible. Keep task manager minimized and visible (it should show the CPU usage in the notification area). Once you have task manager running as described above, use your machine as...

The only thing I understood about the original post is that he'd like to find a monitor for $90. I suggested one for $101 (seems close enough.) Other than that, I got my compass out to make sure I don't lose track of due north. ;)

if you have a piece of styrofoam laying around, I'd stick the cpu into it (put the piece of styrofoam on a flat solid surface and press the cpu pin into it by apply steady and even pressure on the CPU until you feel the pins sinking into the styrofoam.) If you don't have a piece of styrofoam...